Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Faber & Faber Emergency Kit Poems for Strange Times
Book SynopsisEmergency Kit is an anthology with many differences. It is, to begin with, a book which gives prominence to poems rather than to the poets who wrote them. It is truly international, bringing together poems not just from these islands but from many parts of the English-speaking world. It is the first book to identify a strain in the poetry of the last half-century which is characteristic of the ''strange times'' we live in - an age when, as the editors note, scientific discovery itself has encouraged us to ''make free with the boundaries of realism''. It values imagination, surprise, vivid expression, the outlandish and the playful above ideology and sententiousness. It is, in short, living proof that poetry in the English language continues to thrive and to matter.
£11.69
Faber & Faber Contemporary Irish Poetry
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1984, Paul Muldoon''s The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry sought to establish a canon of Irish Poetry since the death of Yeats. Here the reader can explore substantial selections of the poetry of ten of the most consistently impressive of the post-war poets - Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Paul Durcan, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian.The editor, Paul Muldoon, is widely regarded as the leading Irish poet of his generation. In this anthology he brings together fellow poets who have maintained and extended Yeats''s legacy.
£13.49
Faber & Faber TwentiethCentury Scottish Poetry
Book SynopsisDuring the 1920s, Scottish poetry, personified by Hugh MacDiarmid, asserted its independence, denying the claim made by T. S. Eliot that all significant differences between Scottish and English literature had ceased to exist. It was an energetic ''No'' to provincialism, and a vigorous ''Yes'' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. On its first appearance in 1992, the retrospective and organising vision of Douglas Dunn''s now-classic anthology revealed a profounder level of achievement in modern Scottish poetry - whether in Scots, Gaelic or English - than had been formerly acknowledged, and introduced an entire canon of writing to a wider readership, edited with discrimination and exemplary lucidity.
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Faber & Faber Short and Sweet
Book SynopsisShort and Sweet is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion, wisdom and music as any more extended piece of writing. In his witty and instructive introduction, Simon Armitage, pace-setting poet of his generation, encourages us to consider how poets over five centuries have used brevity.
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Faber & Faber The Finest Music Early Irish Lyrics
Book SynopsisIn a series of timeless and modern-day renditions, Maurice Riordan brilliantly introduces us to the poems that founded Ireland''s rich literature. Memorable and accessible, these early lyrics are presented in their classic incarnations by literary giants from both sides of the Irish Sea: in examples by W. H. Auden, Flann O''Brien, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Montague, Robert Graves and Frank O''Connor. But the anthology is much more than a survey of canonical texts; through a series of specially commissioned poems, fresh eyes are brought to bear on these ancient poems: by Seamus Heaney and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, by Paul Muldoon and Kathleen Jamie, by Ciaran Carson and Christopher Reid, and many others. The experience is enhanced still further by the enabling hand of Riordan himself, in a sweep of exquisite translations of his own made especially for this publication. Unforgettable and inspirational, a book for giving and for keeping: The Finest Music by some of the art-form''s f
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Faber & Faber 1914 Poetry Remembers
Book SynopsisThe First World War holds a unique place in the nation''s history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation''s hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets of the present to choose the writing from the Great War that touched them most profoundly: their choices are here in this powerful and moving assembly. But this anthology is more than a record of war writing. Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned these same poets of the present to look back across the past and write a poem of their own in response to the war to end all wars. Whether as a reader your interest is in the Great War or the great war poets, or whether it is in the poetry of today, this anthology will hold a special place in your affections, as it remembers and recalls - a and through its commissioned work, renews and honours - the engagement between poetry and this terrible, unworldly of world conflicts.
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Faber & Faber Poetry Please
Book SynopsisBBC Radio 4''s Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of the country''s best-loved poems over the decades since its inception. The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked for and most broadcast pieces ever: it is those poems that this anthology brings together here. A showcase, in effect, for the nation''s favourite verse, Poetry Please is a treasure trove for our most requested and most listened to poems of all time. It is a compelling invitation for readers of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate the verse that we care so much about: from new readers to old, from schools to reading groups, this a book for giving, a book for cherishing.
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Faber & Faber SIX POETS HARDY TO LARKIN
Book SynopsisWriters like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions.In this personal anthology, Alan Bennett has chosen over seventy poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their verse in his customary conversational style through anecdote, shrewd appraisal and spare but telling biographical detail. Ranging from hidden treasures to famous poems, this is a collection for the beginner and the expert alike. Speaking with candour about his own reactions to the work, Alan Bennett creates profound and witty portraits of Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Philip Larkin, all the more enjoyable for being in his own particular voice.Anybody writing poetry in the thirties had somehow to come to terms with Auden. Auden, you see, had got a head start on the other poets. He''d got into the thirties first, like some
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Faber & Faber A Choice of AngloSaxon Verse
Book SynopsisA Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as ''The Battle of Maldon'', ''The Dream of the Rood'', ''The Wanderer'' and ''The Seafarer'', as well as a generous representation of the many important fragments, riddles and gnomic verses that survive from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, with facing-page verse translations. These poems are the well-spring of the English poetic tradition, and this anthology provides a unique window into the mind and culture of the Anglo-Saxons.The volume is an essential companion to Faber''s edition of Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney.
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Faber & Faber Poetry Please Love Poems
Book Synopsis''What will survive of us is love.'' In this new anthology poets from across the ages lead us on a journey of love in its many forms. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, as well as a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, this new gathering of timeless love poems speaks to the heart about this most universal of themes.Whether in marriage or heartbreak, friendship or infatuation, whether in pursuit of the unattainable ideal or else settling down together for life, whether in love or out of it, you will find poems here to touch the heart. A vital assembly of our most treasured and enduring love poems.
£9.89
Faber & Faber Armistice
Book SynopsisThe Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but the Great War' would not as hoped be the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of armistice': its stoppage or stand' of arms, its search for truce and ceasefire. In 100 poems, our most cherished poets of the Great War speak alongside those from other conflicts and cultures, so that we hear some of the lesser-heard voices of war, including wives, families, those left behind. These poems of war and peace memorialise the horror and the tragedy of conflict. At the same time, in armistice, they become a record of renewal and a testimony to hope.
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Faber & Faber Poems of the Decade 20112020
Book SynopsisPoems of the Decade 2011-2020 celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Gathering one hundred poems by writers and performers who have drawn new audiences to the artform, it highlights poetry as a space for fresh powerful language, feeling and thought. It includes poems by Raymond Antrobus, Simon Armitage, Fiona Benson, Liz Berry, Caroline Bird, Vahni Capildeo, Alice Oswald and Claudia Rankine.
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Faber & Faber Nature Matters
Book SynopsisRevitalising conversations around environmentalism and ecopoetics, this new gathering of African, Asian and Caribbean diaspora voices is both urgent and inspirational.There has been a welcome surge of nature writing in recent years. Yet this has raised questions as to whose voices are privileged and heard in a space predominantly occupied by Western European traditions and authors. In Nature Matters, poets Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf seek to redress this imbalance. Their genre-enriching anthology presents brand-new commissions alongside formative works from the past fifty years that invite us to reconsider nature poetry from global-majority perspectives. Image-rich and formally diverse, the poems explore fundamental and ecological themes including climate crisis and the Anthropocene; urban nature, solitude and alienation; protest and radical empathy; Indigenous wisdom and alternative histories.''A vigorous and timely hymn to the universality of nature. It''s amazing that Nature Matters hasn''t existed until now.'' Sathnam Sanghera''An exquisitely profound and groundbreaking testament to our natural world by many of the most powerful poetic voices of our times.'' Bernardine EvaristoThis anthology is a revelation.' Guardian Best Recent PoetryContributors:Victoria Adukwei Bulley, John Agard, Jason Allen-Paisant, Moniza Alvi, Anthony Anaxagorou, Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Andre Bagoo, Khairani Barokka, Dzifa Benson, Jay Bernard, Sujata Bhatt, Malika Booker, Kamau Brathwaite, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Mary Jean Chan, Kayo Chingonyi, David Dabydeen, Fred D'Aguiar, Kwame Dawes, Imtiaz Dharker, Tishani Doshi, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, Inua Ellams, Richard Georges, Lorna Goodison, Mina Gorji, Will Harris, Ranjit Hoskote, Sarah Howe, Ian Humphreys, Sharan Hunjan, Ishion Hutchinson, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Anthony Joseph, Bhanu Kapil, Jackie Kay, Mimi Khalvati, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Zaffar Kunial, Hannah Lowe, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Roy McFarlane, Nick Makoha, E. A. Markham, Momtaza Mehri, Kei Miller, Daljit Nagra, Karthika Naïr, Grace Nichols, Selina Nwulu, Gboyega Odubanjo, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Nii Parkes, Sandeep Parmar, Pascale Petit, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Alycia Pirmohamed, Nina Mingya Powles, Taz Rahman, A. K. Ramanujan, Nisha Ramayya, Shivanee Ramlochan, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Roger Robinson, Denise Saul, Seni Seneviratne, Olive Senior, Warsan Shire, Jeet Thayil, Marvin Thompson, Derek Walcott, Kandace Siobhan Walker, Rushika Wick, Jennifer Wong and Benjamin Zephaniah.
£13.49
Faber & Faber The Forward Book of Poetry 2023
Book SynopsisThe Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published in the UK and Ireland, as chosen by the jury of the annual Forward Prizes, this anthology offers vital overview of the literary landscape to seasoned poetry lovers and new readers alike.
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Faber & Faber Second World War Poems
Book SynopsisThe Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and translated poems includes verse written by servicemen who participated in the war Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis, Randall Jarrell as well as by survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust Primo Levi, Nelly Sachs, Paul Celan and civilians across Europe and beyond. It features work by important women poets Elizabeth Bishop, H.D., Anna Akhmatova exiles such as W. H. Auden and Berthold Brecht, and writers reporting from London, Paris, Warsaw, Moscow and New York, dealing with the terrifying impact and legacy of the conflict. Presented with a historical critical introduction and biographical notes, the result is a vital lyric testimony to the tragic global theatre of the war.
£11.69
Faber & Faber The Forward Book of Poetry 2024
Book SynopsisThis is poetry for our times. The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published in the UK and Ireland, as chosen by the jury of the annual Forward Prizes, this anthology offers a vital overview of the literary landscape to seasoned poetry lovers and new readers alike.
£9.49
Faber & Faber Liberty Faber Poetry Journal
Book SynopsisThe Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S.Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are arguably the finest of their generation. In recent years the creation of anthologies has further broadened the scope of the Faber poetry list by including the work of great poets from the past, chosen by the contemporary poets they have inspired. This Liberty Faber Poetry Journal contains a selection of new and classic poems and over a hundred lined pages for the reader to fill as they wish.To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)Postscript by Mary Jean Chan (b. 1990)April from Prologue to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s - 1400)Bumbarrel''s Nest by John Clare (1793-1864)Heronkind by Julia Copus (b.1969)On First Looking into Chapman''s Homer by John Keats (1795-1821)Preludes IV by T.S. Eliot (1888-196
£15.29
Faber & Faber Faber Poetry Diary 2026
Book SynopsisThe Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are among the finest of their generation. The Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list.Victoria Adukwei Bulley Simon ArmitageGeorge BarkerEmily BerryWilliam BlakeMary Jean ChanJohn ClareGillian ClarkeWendy CopeJulia CopusStephen CraneJohn DonneT.S. EliotMatthew FrancisLavinia GreenlawThomas HardySeamus HeaneyGerard Manley HopkinsTed HughesIshion HutchinsonBen JonsonJohn KeatsZaffar KunialPhilip LarkinD.H. LawrenceLachlan MackinnonAnge MlinkoDaljit NagraSylvia PlathCamille RalphsRichard ScottWilliam ShakespearePercy Bysshe ShelleyStevie SmithWislawa SzymborskaEdward ThomasDerek WalcottWalt WhitmanWilliam WordsworthW.B. Yeats
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Penguin Young Readers No Place Like Home
Book SynopsisPoets from around the world celebrate the universal appeal of the comforts of home in this unique anthology.Whether inhabited or remembered, whether solitary or teeming with family, whether a refuge from the world or a connection to a community, home is essential to the self. The poems in this anthology invite us into urban apartments and cozy cottages, stately mansions and hermits’ huts. We watch a medieval housewife explain how she has spent her day; we join with Robert Herrick as he gives thanks for his “humble roof . . . weatherproof”; we peep in on Amy Lowell in the bath and John Donne in his bed, and join Joy Harjo at the kitchen table. Home can mean many things: from Horace’s rural farm to Billy Collins’s favorite armchair, from Milton’s “blissful bower” in Paradise to Imtiaz Dharker’s “Living Space” in the slums of Mumbai. Mary Oliver imagines her dream house, Emily Dickinson dwells in possibility—a fairer House than Prose, and a wide range of displaced poets long for their home countries: Ovid, Joachim du Bellay, Kapka Kassabova, Mahmoud Darwish, and even Jules Supervielle feeling “Homesick for the Earth.” Wherever you happen to dwell or whatever your idea of domestic bliss, you are sure to find visions that resonate in No Place Like Home.Everyman''s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
£14.36
Penguin Young Readers English Romantic Poets
Book SynopsisA greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets in the English language, in a gorgeously-jacketed small hardcover.William Wordsworth defined good poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,” and no generation of poets has felt more powerfully than the Romantics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this indispensable volume, Sir Jonathan Bate—prizewinning biographer of Wordsworth, Keats and John Clare—brings together the most loved poems of the age, together with many forgotten gems. Alongside classics such as Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” and “Frost at Midnight”, the immortal odes of Keats, and generous selections from Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads and The Prelude, the reader will rediscover the wit of Byron, the wildness of Blake, the passion of Shelley, a wealth of nature poems by Clare, and the distinctive voices of women Romantics such as Charlot
£14.40
Penguin Young Readers Fairy Poems
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging and appealingly fairy-sized treasury of fantastical poems from across the centuries and around the world, in a gorgeously jacketed small hardcoverFascination with fairies spans centuries and cultures. With ancient roots in pagan belief, fairies have long populated mythology, folklore, and oral and written poetry. They have seen repeated surges of renewed popularity from the Renaissance to the present fantasy-besotted moment.Elves, changelings, mermaids, pixies, and sprites, England’s Queen Mab, France’s Morgana, Scandinavian nixies, and Irish banshees: these magical creatures are sometimes mischievous, sometimes dangerous, but always enchanting. This collection brings together a diverse array of literary fairies: here are Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare‘s Titania, and Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” but also Arthur Rimbaud’s “Fairy,” Goethe''s Erlking, Claude McKay’s “
£16.00
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Spellbound
Book SynopsisA unique anthology of poems from around the world and through the ages that celebrate magic and magiciansNo matter how modern or scientifically advanced our societies become, human beings remain perpetually enthralled by the idea of magic, from our daily superstitions to our choices of entertainment. Magic has long been a central subject of poetry, and the poems in this collection are evocative evidence that the poet’s art depends on a form of wizardry—the ability to conjure enchantment from a particular combination of words.Venerable literary wizards such as Shakespeare's Prospero, Tennyson's Merlin, and T. S. Eliot's Mr. Mistoffelees make appearances here alongside illusionists and prestidigitators in Kay Ryan's Houdini, Ted Kooser's Card Trick, Charles Simic's My Magician, and Richard Wilbur's The Mind-Reader. Here is a treasury of poetic spells, charms, and incantations, from Elise Paschen's Love Spell, Robert Graves's Love and Black Magic, and Lu Yu's The Pedlar of Spells, to a Cherokee Spell to Destroy Life. And here, too, are all sorts of sorcerers, conjurers, enchantresses, and witches, as captured in Emily Dickinson's Best Witchcraft is Geometry, Michael Schmidt's Nine Witches, and H. D.'s Circe, keeping company with magical poems from cultures around the world. Everyman's Library's Pocket Poets are pocket-sized hardcovers that feature acid-free cream-colored paper bound in a full-cloth case with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, a silk ribbon marker, a European-style half-round spine, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
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iUniverse An Uninhibited Treasury of Erotic Poetry
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Romantic Poetry
Book SynopsisEasily adaptable as both an anthology and an insightful guide to reading and understanding Romantic Poetry, this text discusses the important elements in the works from poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Barbauld, Byron, Shelley, Hemans, Keats and Landon.Trade Review"This poetry anthology is impressive because of its carefully lucid headnotes and footnotes, its thematic contents lists and its textual reliability, all of which are a very high order." (BARS Bulletin & Review, July 2008) "The editors have a particular commitment to the role that an appreciation of poetic form can play in critical understanding, and it is on account of this formal detail that the anthology is so valuable. Introductory headnotes elucidate the subtleties of each poem's craft, while footnotes comment on line endings, rhyme patterns, and other features of the text. Some comments are so brilliantly incisive as to deserve separate publication, such as the account of the metre of Christabel: 'each line seems like a stealthy event' (p. 207). Without question, this is by far the best way that any reader could be introduced to these poets, and the anthology is careful not to suggest that an attention to poetic detail precludes other types of investigation. Understanding how a poem creates meaning, however, is the vital first step, and for this reason Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology will doubtless be the standard teaching anthology for many years." Year's Work of English Studies (2010)Table of ContentsSelected Contents by Theme. List of Plates. Note on Texts and Editorial Method. Index of Themes. Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks. Introduction: Romantic Doubleness. Acknowledgements. Anna Laetitia Barbauld, neé Aikin (1743--1825). The Rights of Woman. Inscription for an Ice-House. To Mr. S. T. Coleridge. Charlotte Smith, neé Turner (1749--1806). Sonnet 1 ['The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours']. Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale. Sonnet XII. Written on the Sea Shore. – October, 1784. Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun. Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Sonnet XXXIX. To Night. Sonnet XLIV. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex. William Blake (1757--1827). from Songs of Innocence and of Experience. (from Innocence). Introduction. The Ecchoing Green. The Lamb. The Little Black Boy. The Chimney Sweeper. Holy Thursday. Nurse’s Song. (from Experience). Introduction. The Clod and the Pebble. Holy Thursday. The Sick Rose. The Fly. The Tyger. Ah! Sun-flower. London. A Poison Tree. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. The First Book of Urizen. The Mental Traveller. The Crystal Cabinet. William Wordsworth (1770--1850). Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed. Simon Lee, the old Huntsman, With an incident in which he was concerned. Anecdote for Fathers, Shewing how the practice of Lying may be taught. Lines written in early Spring. The Thorn. The Last of the Flock. The Idiot Boy. Expostulation and Reply. The Tables Turned; An Evening Scene, on the same subject. Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798. The Ruined Cottage. Strange Fits of Passion I have Known. Song: 'She Dwelt among th'untrodden Ways'. A Slumber did my Spirit Seal. The Two April Mornings. The Fountain, A Conversation. Nutting. Michael, A Pastoral Poem. From The Prelude (1805), Book 1. Resolution and Independence. The World is Too Much With Us. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803. Ode (from 1815 entitled ‘Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’). The Solitary Reaper. Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834). The Eolian Harp. Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire. Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement. This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison. Kubla Khan. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Christabel. Frost at Midnight. France: An Ode. The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, April, 1798. The Pains of Sleep. Dejection: An Ode. George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824). Stanzas to [Augusta]. [Epistle to Augusta]. Stanzas to the Po. Don Juan. The Dedication. Canto 1. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822). Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. Mont Blanc. Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni. Prometheus Unbound, Act I. Ode to the West Wind. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of ‘Endymion’, ‘Hyperion’, etc. Felicia Hemans, née Browne (1793--1835). Properzia Rossi. The Homes of England. The Spirit’s Mysteries. The Graves of a Household. The Image in Lava. Casabianca. The Lost Pleiad. The Mirror in the Deserted Hall. John Keats (1795--1821). On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. The Eve of St Agnes. La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Ode to Psyche. If by dull rhymes our english must be chain’d. Ode to a Nightingale. Ode on a Grecian Urn. Ode on Melancholy. Ode on Indolence. To Autumn. Bright star, Would I Were Stedfast as thou art. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) (1802--38). Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love-Letter. A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk. By Stewardson. Lines of Life. Felicia Hemans. Index of Titles and First Lines
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Poetry from Chaucer to Spenser Based on Chaucer
Book SynopsisOpening with extracts from Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales and closing with Spenser''s Shepherd''s Calendar, this concise collection introduces readers to some of the most influential poetry produced between the mid-fourteenth and late sixteenth centuries. Provides a concise selection of the most important late medieval poetry. Ideal for general readers, or for students needing a digest of the poetry of the period. Introduces readers to the lives of the poets, their major works, and the historical context in which they were written. Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400):. From The Canterbury Tales:. The General Prologue. The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale. 2. William Langland (fl.1375-80):. The Vision of Piers Plowman (C-Text) (extracts). Prologue. Passus III. Passus V. Passus VI. 3. The Gawain-Poet (fl. 1390):. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Fit 3. 4. Robert Henryson (c. 1430-c. 1505):. The Testament of Cresseid. The Fables. The Fox and the Wolf. The Wolf and the Wether. 5. William Dunbar (c. 1456-c. 1515):. Meditation in Winter. Christ in Triumph. The Golden Targe (extracts). The Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow (extracts). ‘Timor Mortis Conturbat Me'. 6. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42):. ‘The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbor'. ‘Who-so list to hunt, I knowe where is an hynde'. ‘Farewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever'. ‘My galy charged with forgetfulnes'. ‘Madame, withouten many wordes';. ‘They fle from me that sometyme did me seke'. ‘What no, perdy, ye may be sure!'. ‘Marvaill no more all-tho'. ‘Tho I cannot your crueltie constrain'. ‘To wish and want and not obtain'. ‘Some-tyme I fled the fyre that me brent'. ‘The furyous gonne is his rajing yre'. ‘My lute, awake! perfourme the last'. ‘In eternum I was ons determed'. ‘Hevyn and erth and all that here me plain'. ‘To cause accord or to agre'. ‘You that in love finde lucke and habundaunce'. ‘What rage is this? what furour of what kynd?'. ‘Is it possible?'. ‘Forget not yet the tryde entent'. ‘Blame not my lute for he must sownde'. ‘What shulde I saye'. ‘Spight hath no powre to make me sadde'. ‘I abide and abide and better abide'. ‘Stond who-so list upon the slipper toppe'. ‘Throughout the world, if it wer sought'. ‘In court to serve decked with freshe aray'. 7. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-47):. ‘When raging love with extreme payne'. ‘The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes'. ‘Set me wheras the sonne doth perche the grene'. ‘Love, that doth raine and live within my thought'. ‘Alas, so all thinges nowe do holde their peace'. ‘Geve place, ye lovers, here before'. Epitaph for Wyatt. 8. Edmund Spenser (1552-99):. From The Shepherd's Calender. January. Index of titles and first lines.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Old and Middle English Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers together the essential texts from the earliest writings in the vernacular up to the time of Chaucer. Spanning almost seven centuries, it encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. From The Exeter Book:. Deor. The Wanderer. The Seafarer. The Wife's Lament. From The Vercelli Book. The Dream of the Rood. The Battle of Maldon. 2. From The Beowulf-Manuscript:. 3. From Beowulf (extract, X-XVIII):. Judith. 4. From London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A.IX:. The Owl and the Nightingale. 5. From The Auchinleck Manuscript:. Sir Orfeo. 5. From London, British Library, Harley 2253:. Alysoun. Spring. An Old Man's Prayer. I Syke when Y Singe. Richard Rolle (c.1290-1349). Song of Love. Wynnere and Wastoure. Index of titles and first lines.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Old and Middle English Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers together the essential texts from the earliest writings in the vernacular up to the time of Chaucer. Spanning almost seven centuries, it encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. From The Exeter Book:. Deor. The Wanderer. The Seafarer. The Wife's Lament. From The Vercelli Book. The Dream of the Rood. The Battle of Maldon. 2. From The Beowulf-Manuscript:. 3. From Beowulf (extract, X-XVIII):. Judith. 4. From London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A.IX:. The Owl and the Nightingale. 5. From The Auchinleck Manuscript:. Sir Orfeo. 5. From London, British Library, Harley 2253:. Alysoun. Spring. An Old Man's Prayer. I Syke when Y Singe. Richard Rolle (c.1290-1349). Song of Love. Wynnere and Wastoure. Index of titles and first lines.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period. Distils into one volume the key poems of the Victorian era. Organised chronologically, allowing readers to perceive continuities and changes through the century. Includes a general introduction, giving readers an overview of the poets and the period. Represents texts in their entirety where possible. Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction (Duncan Wu). 1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61). Sonnets from the Portuguese (extracts). From Aurora Leigh: First Book. . 2. Alfred (Lord) Tennyson (1809-92). . Mariana. The Lady of Shalott. Ulysses. Morte d'Arthur. 'Break, Break, Break'. From The Princess; A Medley. From In Memoriam A.H.H. The Charge of the Light Brigade. From Maud. I ('I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood'). XXII ('Come into the garden, Maud'). Crossing the Bar. . 3. Robert Browning (1812-89). My Last Duchess. The Lost Leader. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister. Porphyria's Lover. Home-Thoughts, from Abroad. The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church. Meeting at Night. Parting at Morning. Love Among the Ruins. Fra Lippo Lippi. A Toccata of Galuppi's. ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'. Memorabilia. Andrea del Sarto. Two in the Campagna. A Grammarian's Funeral. Never the Time and the Place. . 4. Emily (Jane) Brontë (1818-48). 'What winter floods, what showers of spring'. 'Long neglect has worn away'. 'The night is darkening round me'. 'All hushed and still within the house'. 'O Dream, where art thou now?'. 'How still, how happy! those are words'. 'Mild the mist upon the hill'. 'Come, walk with me'. To Imagination. Remembrance ('R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida'). Julian M. and A. G. Rochelle ('The Prisoner'). 'No coward soul is mine'. . 5. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61). 'Say not the struggle naught availeth'. 'That there are powers above us I admit'. . 6. Matthew Arnold (1822-88). To Marguerite in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis. Self-Dependence. Dover Beach. The Scholar-Gipsy. . 7. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82). The Blessed Damozel. From The House of Life: A Sonnet-Sequence. Part I: Youth and Change. Sonnet VI: The Kiss. Sonnet VII: Supreme Surrender. Sonnet XI: The Love-Letter. Sonnet XXVI: Mid-Rapture. Sonnet LIII: Without Her. Sonnet LIV: Love's Fatality. Part II: Change and Fate. Sonnet LXIX: Autumn Idleness. Sonnet LXXVII: Soul's Beauty. Sonnet LXXVIII: Body's Beauty. Sonnet LXXXI: Memorial Thresholds. Sonnet LXXXII: Hoarded Joy. Sonnet XCVII: A Superscription. Sonnet CI: The One Hope. Nuptial Sleep. 'Found' (For a Picture). . 8. Christina G. Rossetti (1830-94). Remember. Goblin Market. . 9. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928):. Neutral Tones. Nature’s Questioning. The Impericipeint. In aEweleaze near Weatherbury. "I look into my glass’. A Broken Appointment. The Darkling Thrush. The Self-Unseeing.. 10. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89). The Wreck of the Deutschland. God's Grandeur. The Windhover. Pied Beauty. Binsey Poplars. Felix Randal. 'As Kingfishers Catch Fire'. Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves. 'Thou art indeed just, Lord'. . 11. A. E. Housman (1859-1936). From A Shropshire Lad. From Last Poems. . 12. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). The Stolen Child. Down by the Salley Gardens. The Rose of the World. The Lake Isle of Innisfree. When You Are Old. Who Goes with Fergus?. The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner. The Song of Wandering Aengus. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. Adam’s Curse. Red Hanrahans’s Song about Ireland.. Index of Titles and First Lines.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisVictorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is a fully annotated and illustrated collection of Victorian poetry. Features a generous selection of work by all the major figures of the age, including Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Oscar Wilde Presents several long poems in their entirety, such as Arnold's Empedocles on Etna', Clough's Amours de Voyage, Meredith's Modern Love and Tennyson's In Memoriam AHH Each poet is introduced by a biographical headnote Each poem is introduced by a headnote giving publication details, biographical facts, contextual material, and other information The poems themselves are all fully annotated Extensive introductory material enables readers to read across the volume chronologically, thematically, or by individual author Features twelve black and white illustrations of images referred to in or relevant toTrade Review"This is an excellent guide to the poetry of the period, and a teaching tool of obvious integrity, offering both help where it is needed and the kind of challenges that are essential to a meaningful learning experience." Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsSuggested Contents by Theme and Genre. Alphabetical List of Authors. List of Plates. Abbreviations. Chronology. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Poetry included (short titles). Thomas Macaulay (1800-59). ‘Horatius: A Lay made about the Year of the City CCCLX’. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61). ‘Bertha in the Lane’. ‘The Cry of the Children’. ‘Rime of the Duchess May’. ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point’. ‘Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave’. Sonnets from the Portuguese (selection):. ‘I thought once how Theocritus had sung’. ‘I never gave a lock of hair away’. ‘If I leave all for thee’. ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’. ‘Beloved, thou has brought me many flowers’. ‘Lord Walter’s Wife’. ‘A Musical Instrument’. ‘Amy’s Cruelty’. Alfred Tennyson (1809-92). ‘The Dying Swan’. ‘Mariana’. ‘The Lotos-Eaters’. ‘The Lady of Shalott’. ‘The Epic/Morte d’Arthur’. ‘Ulysses’. ‘Now sleeps the crimson petal’. In Memoriam A.H.H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’. ‘To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava’. ‘Crossing the Bar’. Robert Browning (1812-89). ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. ‘My Last Duchess’. ‘The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church’. ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’. ‘Andrea del Sarto’. ‘“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”’. ‘A Toccata of Galuppi’s’. ‘Two in the Campagna’. ‘Caliban upon Setebos’. ‘Eurydice to Orpheus: A Picture by Leighton’. ‘Inapprehensiveness’. Emily Brontë (1818-48). ‘High waving heather’. ‘The Night-Wind. ‘Shall earth no more inspire thee[?]’. ‘To Imagination’. ‘Remembrance’. ‘The Prisoner: A Fragment’. ‘No coward soul is mine’. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61). ‘Say not the struggle nought availeth’. Amours de Voyage. ‘The Latest Decalogue’. Matthew Arnold (1822-88). ‘A Summer Night’. ‘To Marguerite – Continued’. ‘Empedocles on Etna’. ‘The Buried Life’. ‘The Scholar-Gipsy’. ‘Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse’. ‘Dover Beach’. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-64). ‘Philip and Mildred’. ‘A Legend of Provence’. George Meredith (1828-1909). Modern Love. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82). ‘The Burden of Nineveh’. ‘Sestina. Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni’. ‘Jenny’. ‘Nuptial Sleep’. ‘Song 8: The Woodspurge’. Christina G. Rossetti (1830-94). ‘In an Artist’s Studio’. ‘An Apple-Gathering’. ‘A Birthday’. ‘Goblin Market’. ‘Song: When I am dead, my dearest’. ‘Winter: My Secret’. ‘The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860’. ‘Shut Out’. ‘The World’. ‘A Christmas Carol: In the bleak mid-winter’. ‘In life our absent friend’. ‘Resurgam’. ‘Babylon the Great’. James Thomson, ‘B. V.’ (1834-82). The City of Dreadful Night. William Morris (1834-96). ‘The Haystack in the Floods’. ‘The Defence of Guenevere’. ‘Concerning Geffray Teste Noire’. ‘Iceland First Seen’. Alfred Austin (1835-1913). ‘Henry Bartle Edward Frere’. Augusta Webster (1837-94). ‘Circe’. ‘A Castaway’. ‘Faded’. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). ‘Hymn to Proserpine’. ‘Anactoria’. ‘Laus Veneris’. ‘Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire’. ‘A Forsaken Garden’. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). ‘Hap’. ‘Drummer Hodge’. ‘The Darkling Thrush’. ‘In the Old Theatre, Fiesole’. ‘The Ruined Maid’. ‘The Self-Unseeing’. ‘In Tenebris I’. ‘Shelley’s Skylark’. ‘Lausanne: In Gibbon’s Old Garden’. ‘The Revisitation’. Gerard M[anley] Hopkins (1844-89). ‘Spring and Fall’. ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’. ‘As kingfishers catch fire’. ‘God’s Grandeur’. ‘Pied Beauty’. ‘The Windhover’. ‘Inversnaid’. ‘That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection’. ‘Harry Ploughman’. ‘Binsey Poplars’. ‘No worst, there is none’. ‘My own heart let me more have pity on’. Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845-1907). ‘The New Medusa’. Imaginary Sonnets: ‘Laura to Petrarch’. ‘Carmagnola to the Republic of Venice’. ‘Fallopius to his Dissecting Knife’. ‘Charles Edward to his Last Friend’. Michael Field (Katherine Bradley [1846-1914] and Edith Cooper [1862-1913]). ‘Maids, not to you my mind doth change’. ‘La Gioconda’. ‘A Portrait: Bartolommeo Veneto’. ‘A Girl’. ‘Cyclamens’. ‘Sometimes I do despatch my heart’. ‘It was deep April’. ‘Nests in Elms’. Four Victorian Hymns. ‘The day thou gavest’ (Ellerton). ‘Take my life and let it be’ (Havergal). ‘Onward Christian soldiers’ (Baring-Gould). ‘My God how wonderful thou art’ (Faber). W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley (1849-1903). In Hospital. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). ‘Fantaisies Décoratives: II. Les Ballons’. ‘Symphony in Yellow’. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. John Davidson (1857-1909). ‘Thirty Bob a Week’. ‘A Woman and her Son’. ‘Snow’. ‘The Crystal Palace’. May Kendall (1861-?1943). ‘Lay of the Trilobite’. Amy Levy (1861-89). ‘Xantippe: A Fragment’. ‘A Minor Poet’. ‘A Ballad of Religion and Marriage’. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy’. ‘Gunga Din’. ‘Tommy’. ‘Recessional, A Victorian Ode’. ‘The White Man’s Burden’. ‘If – ’. ‘The Way through the Woods’. Arthur Symons (1865-1945). ‘From Théophile Gautier: Posthumous Coquetry’. ‘The Absinthe Drinker’. ‘Javanese Dancers’. ‘Prologue’. ‘Paris’. ‘Hands’. ‘White Heliotrope’. ‘Stella Maris’. Ernest Dowson (1867-1900). ‘Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration’. ‘Extreme Unction’. ‘Nun Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae’. ‘Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam’. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902). ‘Oxford’. ‘By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross’. ‘The Dark Angel’. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928). ‘The Forest Road’. ‘Madeleine in Church’. ‘The Trees are Down’. Select Bibliography. Index of titles. Index of First Lines
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Borderless
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Harvard University Press Invectives
Book SynopsisFrancesco Petrarca (1304–1374), one of the greatest Italian poets, was also a leader in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. This new critical edition of the Invectives, intended to revive the eloquence of Cicero, are directed against scholastic philosophy and medicine and the dominance of French culture.Trade ReviewImpeccably edited and translated by David Marsh. -- Anthony T. Grafton * New York Review of Books *
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Harvard University Press Baiae
Book SynopsisPontano was the most innovative, versatile Latin poet of Quattrocento Italy. His Two Books of Hendecasyllables, subtitled Baiae, are the elegant offspring of Pontano's leisure, written to celebrate love, good wine, friendship, nature, and all the pleasures of life to be found at the seaside resort of Baiae on the Bay of Naples.Trade ReviewPontano's Baiae have now appeared in an elegant and lucid English translation by Rodney G. Dennis in the I Tatti Renaissance Library; like all the volumes in this superb new series, the book has been beautifully produced… The I Tatti volumes with their royal blue covers, spacious layout of both Latin text and facing translation, and discreet but detailed annotation, are a bibliophile's delight. Pontano, a discriminating bookman, would have been pleased. -- Eric Ormsby * New York Sun *
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Harvard University Press Old English Shorter Poems: Volume I
Book SynopsisOld English poetry offers a large number of shorter compositions, many of them on explicitly Christian themes. This volume presents twenty-nine of these shorter religious poems composed in Old and early Middle English between the seventh and twelfth centuries. These texts demonstrate the remarkable versatility of early English verse.Trade ReviewThis handsome volume presents 29 Old English religious poems, each in the original language and facing modern English translation. Jones is wise in categorizing these non-narrative, anonymous poems under four loose headings (‘Poetic Allegories of Nature,’ ‘Poems of Worship and Prayer,’ ‘Poems on Christian Living,’ and ‘Poems on the Last Things’) but emphasizing that the poems nonetheless share inextricable themes of morality and future judgment. Texts are based on established editions, and newly prepared prose translations balance faithfulness to the original with the standards of clear, idiomatic, modern English. The introduction provides context that will heighten appreciation of the poems. Notes on the particular poems offer general textual and bibliographic information. The introduction, notes, and bibliography do not aim to be comprehensive, a laudable choice because it allows inexperienced readers to encounter these beautiful poems, many rarely read today, directly and independent of layers of textual and critical commentary. -- M. B. Busbee * Choice *
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Harvard University Press The Art of the Sonnet
Book SynopsisFew poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. This title collects one hundred exemplary sonnets of the English language (and a few sonnets in translation), representing highlights in the history of the sonnet, accompanied by short commentaries on each of the poems.Trade ReviewBurt and Mikics have a ravishing breadth of taste and understanding. Their capaciousness allows the sonnet greater variety than its enemies (who think it old-fashioned, retrograde, and reactionary) would allow. A literary tour de force. -- Willard Spiegelman, author of Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary HappinessBurt and Mikics have gathered together and composed a marvelous book. Both of them give us profound commentaries on particular sonnets and on the genre. I know of no other recent book that so steadily illuminates the riches it invokes. -- Harold BloomBurt and Mikics have written an illuminating text that promises many hours of reading pleasure and greater understanding of this poetic form. -- Susan L. Peters * Library Journal *Learned as well as passionate, this book is a delight. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *A carefully selected set of 100 sonnets, spanning 1557 to 2009, each with a compact companion essay. [The editors’] aim is to present ‘a partial history of the sonnet form.’ But that puts it too modestly. With their selection of poems and their (mostly) compelling essays, Burt and Mikics manage to give a vivid sense of the sonnet in English as a living, organic thing, interconnected and evolving through time… It’s the essays that really distinguish this volume… Many of these essays are models of how to write about a poem, especially one centuries old. If you like to get under the hood of a poem and poke around at its inner mechanics, to see what makes it go, then the more technical parts of these essays won’t disappoint. But they’re not just technical: They strike an appealing balance of historical, biographical, and textual analysis, while remaining, for the most part, accessible. -- Wen Stephenson * Boston Globe *Newcomers to poetry and longtime readers alike will find this a rich and rewarding volume. -- Lauren Winner * Books & Culture *[A] handsome collection of 100 sonnets...It is to the credit of the compilers of this fine anthology that they manage to mount persuasive (and mercifully jargon-free) arguments that even poems as idiosyncratic as [Les Murray's] "Strangler Fig" reflect the venerable and seemingly inexhaustible traditions of the sonnet. -- Andrew Riemer * Sydney Morning Herald *The editors...[have] collected one hundred enjoyable sonnets reaching back to Thomas Wyatt and George Gascoigne, and meanwhile, providing a thorough introduction and thoroughly astute commentary on each sonnet. I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate this as a reader. -- Jeannie Vanasco * openlettersmonthly.com *Burt and Mikics write two or three pages about each of [the] poems, and mostly these are clear and patient guides to rhythm and form, allusions, their relations to the lives of their authors...They say just the right thing to make their readers turn back to the poems. -- Colin Burrow * London Review of Books *This is a volume of poetry and criticism that a nonspecialist could read front to back with real pleasure. -- G. W. Clift * Choice *Innovative and intelligent...All poetry can be seen as a conversation between poets over time. In The Art of the Sonnet, the little room of the sonnet serves as an echo chamber and amplifier, allowing us to hear those voices--great and small, living and dead--more clearly than ever. -- Adam Kirsch * Harvard Magazine *
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Harvard University Press London
Book SynopsisLondon has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature. The volume includes an introductory essay by the poet.Trade ReviewThe huge anthology [Ford] has edited is a considerable and welcome achievement. Any literate cloakroom should have a copy, but so should anyone interested in London or, indeed, life. -- Lachlan MacKinnon * Times Literary Supplement *[A] superb anthology… Ford’s collection shows the development of particular city-sensibilities: the hedonistic, jaded, nostalgic, urbane. Oppositions are played out as much between the classic dichotomies of country and town as by London’s own inbuilt contradictions (wealth and poverty, pleasure and pain, fear and wonder)… By so assiduously unpacking the metropolis, Ford’s anthology also stumps for poetry itself: as it leaps from historical events to the private dramas playing out in postal districts all over the ‘great mean city,’ the art asserts its primacy as a portal to the full range of the human. -- Nick Laird * New York Review of Books *No other city so inspires and infuriates poets like London… Spanning seven centuries, this fascinating new collection features Wordsworth and Pope alongside lesser-known and even anonymous poets, all of them moved by the city’s labyrinthine streets and smells, sounds and textures. The volume includes an outbreak of plague, the Great Fire, the deposition of Charles I, the crowning of Charles II, two world wars and the introduction of the London Underground, all of it conveyed through the prism of poetry. It makes for a thrilling read… A wonderfully eclectic collection, which sees ballads and poems from popular pamphlets jostling alongside more meditative, contemplative works. There are many unknown gems, such as a rare poem by George Eliot (’In a London Drawingroom’) and work from the under-appreciated Stevie Smith… Poems by Thom Gunn and W.S. Graham, and the contemporary work of Seamus Heaney and Lavinia Greenlaw, prove that London is still a rich source of material. Both a history of London and a clever guide to some overlooked works, this volume is as unexpected and as dazzling as the metropolis itself. * The Economist *Here is a rich, poetic evocation of [London] by one who is himself a learned poet; and dull would he be of soul who did not find something to enjoy in its voluminous bulk. -- A. N. Wilson * Evening Standard *[A] seething, clamorous megalopolis of a London anthology… I have never come across a London anthology (or any warehouse of urban poetry) as rich, as bold, as multifarious as this… Olympic visitors should lug this brick back home for a pungent souvenir of the original ‘maximum city’ in all its grot and grandeur. -- Boyd Tonkin * The Independent *The book is as full of mayhem and color as the city itself… Ford’s book packs in as much lore, as much fact and legend, as much gala occasion, as much glitter and cloud, gossip and prayer, sound and sight and smell as it’s possible to imagine… Ford offers a wonderful sampler of British poets—as well as some of the many American ones who have washed up here, and written what they found. The titles of poems tantalize with place-names, stacking up like gold medals… Everyone’s a winner, and London’s finest moments are all here, for anyone who wants to look. -- Katy Evans-Bush * Los Angeles Review of Books *[Ford’s] anthology, ranging from the mid-fourteenth-century poems of John Gower and William Langland to a poem of Ahren Warner (b. 1986), and across all genres (love poems, satires, anonymous ballads, street cries, limericks, personal memoirs) and all styles (free verse to sonnets and villanelles—Wendy Cope has a beauty), displays an openness of mind and a keen eye. -- Geoffrey Lehmann * Australian Book Review *[A] superb book dedicated to Londons both past and present… London: A History in Verse, edited by Mark Ford, will engage not only poetry lovers but anyone interested in a nearly seven-century poetic record of how London’s citizens and visitors have interpretively framed this city… This ample and handsomely produced book won’t leave any readers feeling cheated. Ford takes care to reflect a contemporary London that is a global city and a postcolonial capital as well. Instead of a monotone ‘London English,’ different demotic voices reflect today’s cosmopolis. -- Brett Foster * Books & Culture *[A] gold [medal] goes to London: A History in Verse, edited by Mark Ford. This beautifully produced, doorstop of an anthology runs from the 14th century to the present day. -- Michael Murray-Fennell * Country Life *[A] wonderful and ceaselessly evocative anthology of London verse. All the way from 14th-century William Langland and Chaucer to the present, we hear echoes, and see reflections… This vast volume is a guide to the city’s authentically enduring soul. -- Sinclair McKay * Daily Telegraph *Traces an enchanting journey round the canonical to the quirky, from love lyrics, the cries of old London, ballads and limericks to satirical verses and epics. -- Juliet Gardiner * History Today *If I were going to recommend one perfect present for a poetry lover, it would be London: A History in Verse. -- Suzi Feay * Independent on Sunday *This elegant selection of poets begins in the 14th century and ends in the present day. -- Nick Owchar * Los Angeles Times *Lavish and intensely enjoyable… Ford has searched the highways and back-alleys of the poetry world and brought together an anthology so great in scope and inviting in scale that it thunderously surpasses anything similar ever attempted… This is a volume to keep, to savor, and to re-savor. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *What’s on offer is an exercise is historical–cultural geography. The experience of reading it is much like that of stepping out of King’s Cross station and strolling the city’s streets. Walk long enough, read deeply enough, and you’ll be immersed in impressions of beauty, grime, humor, violence—often simultaneously. If this book succeeds as a celebration, it is only insofar as it admits everything, like the city itself. -- Tobias Peterson * PopMatters *A magnificent collection revealing [London] in all its splendor and squalor. -- Mark Sanderson * Sunday Telegraph *This anthology is as much about how history is made by words, and how we remember, as it is about the poetry. If it is a history it is unapologetically composed of shards and fragments. But it is possible to glimpse something like a spirit of place; the splendid flashing temperament of a wild animal. For those unwilling to detach history from narrative, this great sprawling collection offers multifarious delights on their own terms. -- Felicity Plunkett * Weekend Australian *This delightfully thick book offers poems from the late 14th century to the early 21st that are connected in one fashion or another with London. Offerings range from nursery rhymes through watermen’s songs and pedlars’ chants, with stops at less-familiar subgenres, such as ‘Thames frozen over’ poems… Sure to afford instruction and delight to readers who love London, to readers curious about the city, and (for that matter) to readers who loathe the place. -- E. D. Hill * Choice *A rich anthology of poems and selections from poems that describe, evoke, and trace the history of London, beginning with the 14th-century Middle English poets Gower, Langland, and Chaucer, and continuing on to current ones such as Tom Chivers and Ahren Warners. In addition to the usual suspects such as Swift, Blake, and Eliot, there is a wide and deep diversity of poets, crossing national, class, and ethnic boundaries in order to express the full response to London. Following a chronological arrangement, Ford includes work commemorating the city’s various defining historical events from insurrections to the Great Plague and Fire, the Industrial Revolution, the Blitz, the Swinging Sixties, and terrorist bombings… A fine anthology aimed not just at poetry specialists but for the general reader who loves both London and verse anthologies. -- T. L. Cooksey * Library Journal *This marvelous anthology ranging over six centuries about one of the great cities of the world is not only a delight to read, but also a revelation: Who would have suspected that there were so many memorable poems written about London by poets one tends to identify with other interests? Starting with Mark Ford’s informative and thoroughly enjoyable introduction, we go from surprise to surprise turning the pages of this book, very much like someone taking in the sights of a city he was not familiar with, or has long known, and is now discovering to his astonishment, as if for the first time. -- Charles SimicA volume that holds a poetic mirror up to London—and how does she look? Sublime and squalid, high-born and street-smart, worthy of a sonnet and fit only for doggerel. This irresistible collection captures 600 years of the city’s vibrant many-voiced chorus. A gem. -- Zadie SmithThis vivid, vibrant and vital anthology takes us into the heart and history of Eliot’s ‘unreal city’, poem by poem. Mark Ford has gathered together poems born of London, in conversation with London, in combat with London, in awe of London, most of which were first published in London, centre of print and power. Covering six and a half centuries of wandering, whoring, watching, drinking, dancing, praying, building, courting, and cursing, here can be found Wordsworth’s ‘endless stream of men and moving things’, even when, as Fleur Adcock puts it, ‘the traffic’s as abominable as ever’. Packed as the Underground, this is as essential a guide to London as the A–Z. -- Frances Wilson
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Harvard University Press Ghazals
Book SynopsisMir Taqi Mir (1723–1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished Urdu poet, composed his ghazals in a distinctive Indian style arising from the Persian tradition. Here, the lover and beloved live in a world of extremes: the outsider is the hero and death is preferred to the beloved’s indifference. Ghazals offers a collection of Mir’s finest work.
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Harvard University Press The Voices of Babyn Yar
Book SynopsisThe poems in The Voices of Babyn Yar convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through unbearable events leading to the massacre at Kyiv’s Babyn Yar. Conceived as a tribute to the fallen, the book raises difficult questions about memory, responsibility, and commemoration of those who had witnessed an evil that verges on the unspeakable.Trade ReviewThere is no doubt that The Voices of Babyn Yar is destined to become a classic text in the Ukrainian canon. Will this poetry save nations or people? Of course not. But it will forever serve as a reminder of the human capacity for evil—a prompt we seem to require on a regular basis. -- Askold Melnyczuk * Times Literary Supplement *Kiyanovska has collected the imaginary testimony of individuals entwined in these unspeakable atrocities. Now they speak…Paradoxically, because the poems are presented as poetic communications, permeated with interjections from the poet herself, they do not further rend the fabric of reality, but have an utter authenticity that can only be explained by vision. -- Matthew Zapruder * Orion *In a translation that nudges close to the linguistic breaking points of the original, while retaining the fullness of its poetic registers and plethora of references to Ukrainian, Jewish, Soviet, and Western contexts, the seasoned translators-cum-poets Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky draw attention to an extraordinary work within the literary canon of the Holocaust. -- MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkIn 2017, the poet Marianna Kiyanovska published her collection Babyn Yar: Holosamy. It has now been translated by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rozochinsky in a virtuosic English version…[The] poems include a discussion of the Nazi genocide, Soviet revisionist history, and recent conversations about identity and citizenship. -- Amelia Glaser * Jewish Renaissance *
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Harvard University Press The Voices of Babyn Yar
Book SynopsisThe poems in The Voices of Babyn Yar convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through unbearable events leading to the massacre at Kyiv’s Babyn Yar. Conceived as a tribute to the fallen, the book raises difficult questions about memory, responsibility, and commemoration of those who had witnessed an evil that verges on the unspeakable.Trade ReviewThere is no doubt that The Voices of Babyn Yar is destined to become a classic text in the Ukrainian canon. Will this poetry save nations or people? Of course not. But it will forever serve as a reminder of the human capacity for evil—a prompt we seem to require on a regular basis. -- Askold Melnyczuk * Times Literary Supplement *Kiyanovska has collected the imaginary testimony of individuals entwined in these unspeakable atrocities. Now they speak…Paradoxically, because the poems are presented as poetic communications, permeated with interjections from the poet herself, they do not further rend the fabric of reality, but have an utter authenticity that can only be explained by vision. -- Matthew Zapruder * Orion *In a translation that nudges close to the linguistic breaking points of the original, while retaining the fullness of its poetic registers and plethora of references to Ukrainian, Jewish, Soviet, and Western contexts, the seasoned translators-cum-poets Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky draw attention to an extraordinary work within the literary canon of the Holocaust. -- MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkIn 2017, the poet Marianna Kiyanovska published her collection Babyn Yar: Holosamy. It has now been translated by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rozochinsky in a virtuosic English version…[The] poems include a discussion of the Nazi genocide, Soviet revisionist history, and recent conversations about identity and citizenship. -- Amelia Glaser * Jewish Renaissance *
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Harvard University Press Babyn Yar
Book SynopsisBabyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in English translation, the poems create a language capable of portraying the suffering and destruction of the Ukrainian Jewish population during the Holocaust as well as other peoples murdered at the site.Trade ReviewRemind[s] the reading public of not only the necessity of remembering history and taking a stand against evil, but also about the necessity of poetry as witness during a time of great atrocity. -- Nicole Yurcaba * New Eastern Europe *Temporally and stylistically expansive, Babyn Yar keeps company with other recent poetry that confronts the costs of war and genocide: Solmaz Sharif’s Look, Monica Sok’s A Nail the Evening Hangs On, and Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic. Each poetic work catalogs grief intimately in the aftermath of political violence. That the Russia–Ukraine War is ongoing at the time of this writing infuses the anthology with a terrible urgency. -- Kathryn Savage * World Literature Today *
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Harvard University Press Ten Indian Classics
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Harvard University Press Introspection and Contemporary Poetry
Book SynopsisIn this bold defense of so-called confessional poetry, Alan Williamson shows us that much of the best writing of the past twenty-five years is about the sense of being or having a self, a knowable personal identity. The difficulties posed by this subject help explain the fertility of contemporary poetic experimentfrom the jaggedness of the later work of Robert Lowell to the montagelike methods of John Ashbery, from the visual surrealism of James Wright and W. S. Merwin to the radical plainness of Frank Bidart. Williamson examines these and other poets from a psychological perspective, giving an especially striking reading of Sylvia Plath.Table of Contents* Introduction *"I Am That I Am": The Ethics and Aesthetics of Personal Poetry * Real and Numinous Selves: A Reading of Plath * Language Against Itself: The Middle Generation of Contemporary Poets *"Surrealism" and the Absent Self * The Diffracting Diamond: Ashbery, Romanticism, and Anti-Art * The Future of Personal Poetry * Notes * Credits * Index
£43.96
Harvard University Press Beginning at the End
Book SynopsisRobert Stilling shows how aestheticism’s decadence became a key idea in postcolonial thought, describing the failures of revolutionary nationalism and asserting cosmopolitanism in poetry and art. Breaking down the boundaries around decadent literature, he takes it outside Europe and emphasizes the global reach of its imaginative transgressions.Trade ReviewGives new and global life to decadence…This is a deeply learned and original work that shows the necessity of bringing modernist and postcolonial studies together. -- Citation for First Book Prize, Modernist Studies AssociationIn a series of brilliant readings, Robert Stilling offers a new understanding of anticolonial anglophone cultural production, one in which liberatory aims are best served, counterintuitively, not by the nationalist arts of social realism but rather by a cosmopolitan modernist poetics of decadence: arts and literatures that celebrate the aesthetic for its own sake. -- Citation for Honorable Mention, First Book Prize, Modern Language AssociationA dazzling confluence of fin-de-siècle aesthetics and postcolonial thought. -- Robert Volpicelli * Modernism/modernity *One of the joys of Beginning at the End is its provision of fresh and surprising perspectives on canonical figures of literary decadence by embedding their writing in the material contexts of colonialism and postcolonial criticism. -- Conor Linnie * Irish Studies Review *This book presents a highly timely contribution to our understanding of modernism, decadence, and postcolonial literary history. Ranging impressively over a global frame of reference, and joining the wrongly divorced sensibilities of modernism and decadence, Stilling shows how a modernist poetics of decadence may serve equally to record a process of decline in history and a register of critique of those developments. This is a major work of literary history. -- Vincent Sherry, Washington University in St. LouisStilling argues that late-nineteenth-century ‘decadent’ writing—its styles, governing tropes, and ways of imagining the past—have proven crucial to poets, playwrights, and visual artists whom we now call postcolonial. These are artists whose subjects include new nations, immigrants, people of color, the new global economy, and new international relations, and decadence has helped them to address these topics without illusions and after the failure of simplist or ill-fated realist or revolutionary programs. This is a book that scholars across the discipline are going to have to read. -- Stephanie Burt, Harvard UniversityRobert Stilling is at the forefront of a group of scholars exploring the powerful legacy of fin-de-siècle culture in twentieth-century art and literature. Beginning at the End convincingly demonstrates that decadent texts and imagery were central to the project of postcolonial writing, and carried a political charge that few others have noticed. It will figure in discussions of both decadence and global modernism for many years to come. -- Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah
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Harvard University Press Select Papyri Volume III
Book SynopsisFragments of ancient literature from the seventh to the third century BC found on papyri in Egypt include examples of tragedy; satyr plays; Old, Middle, and New Comedy; mime; lyric, elegiac, iambic, and hexameter poetry.
£23.70
Harvard University Press Greek Lyric Volume V
Book SynopsisDithyrambic poets of the new school were active from the mid-fifth to mid-fourth century BC. Anonymous poems include drinking songs, children’s ditties, and cult hymns.Trade ReviewCampbell…is now giving the Classics world a definitive edition of Greek Lyric. -- Gregory Nagy * Classical Views *
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Princeton University Press The Complete Works of W. H. Auden Prose Volume I
Book SynopsisContains various essays and reviews that W H Auden wrote during the years when he was living in England, and also includes the full versions of his two illustrated travel books, "Letters from Iceland" and "Journey to a War". This book is intended not only for Auden's admirers, but those concerned with twentieth-century literature and culture.Trade Review"A rich mine of reading here for scholars and informed lay readers alike."--Library Journal "Before famously (and more or less permanently) emigrating to New York in 1939, W.H. Auden was not only the foremost English poet of his generation but also a prolific reviewer and essayist whose tastes and political sensibilities dominated the anti-fascist England of the 1930s... this essential volume in a projected complete edition restores the voracious reader and never pedantic critic to the master poet."--Publisher's Weekly "We need Auden again, sacred and profane. As the New Age lunges into the volcano, we could do worse than read the Auden of the '30s, if only to prepare us to understand, and value, the later Audens ... The Complete Works, edited with elegant scruple by Auden's literary executor Edward Mendelson is ... the only way to get at Auden as he happened, year by year, bit by bit, and not as he, or his later biographers, want us to think of him."--Tom D'Evelyn, The Boston Book Review "For anyone interested in 'early Auden' this book is indispensable."--Bernard Knox, The New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction The Text of This Edition Preface to Oxford Poetry 1926 By W. H. Auden, Charles Plumb Preface to Oxford Poetry 1927 By W. H. Auden, C. Day-Lewis A Review of Instinct and Intuition, by George Binney Dibblee A Review of The Grasshoppers Come, by David Garnett A Review of The Complete Poems of John Skelton A Review of Edda and Saga, by Bertha S. Phillpotts A Review of The Prisoner's Soul - and Our Own, by Eivind Berggrav Writing Private Pleasure Problems of Education A Review of The Evolution of Sex, by Dr Gregorio Maranon, and The Biological Tragedy of Women, by Anton Nemilov Gentleman versus Player A Review of the Dark Places of Education, by Dr Willi Schohaus A Poet Tells Us How to Be Masters of the Machine A Review of Culture and Environment, by F. R. Leavis and Denys Thompson, and Other Books A Review of The Poems of William Dunbar What Is Wrong with Architecture? A Review of The Book of Talbot, by Violet Clifton The First Lord Melchett The Group Movement and the Middle Classes The Liberal Fascist "Honour" "T. E. Lawrence" Life's Old Boy A Review of The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Elsie Elizabeth Phare A Review of Modern Poetic Drama, by Priscilla Thouless A Review of English Poetry for Children, by R. L. Megroz In Search of Dracula To Unravel Unhappiness Lowes Dickinson John Skelton Psychology and Art To-day Introduction to The Poet's Tongue By W. H. Auden, John Garrett The Good Life Everyman's Freedom The Bond and the Free "From the Series "I Want the Theatre to Be..." A Review of Documentary Film, by Paul Rotha Psychology and Criticism A Review of Questions of Our Day, by Havelock Ellis Selling the Group Theatre Honest Doubt "Robert Frost" Pope A Review of The Book of Margery Kempe A Modern Use of Masks: An Apologia Are You Dissatisfied with This Performance? The Average Man Four Stories of Crime Poetry, Poets, and Taste Adventures in the Air A Novelist's Poems Crime Tales and Puzzles Letters from Iceland By W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice Impressions of Valencia Royal Poets A Review of Illusion and Reality, by Christopher Caudwell "From Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War" Preface to the Catalogue of Oil Paintings by Past and Present Members of the Downs School, Colwall Education By W. H. Auden, T. C. Worsley A Good Scout In Defence of Gossip Introduction to The Oxford Book of Light Verse Jehovah Housman and Satan Housman Chinese Diary By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood Meeting the Japanese By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood Escales By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood The Sportsmen: A Parable "Message to the Chinese People" By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood Men of Thought and Action Ironworks and University Democracy's Reply to the Challenge of Dictators Nonsense Poetry Introduction to Poems of Freedom, edited by John Mulgan Foreword to Poet Venturers: A Collection of Poems Written by Bristol School Boys and Girls "The Noble Savage" A New Short Story Writer The Teaching of English Morality in an Age of Change George Gordon Byron China Journey to a War By W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood App. I. Auden as Anthologist and Editor App. II. Reported Lectures App. III. Auden on the Air App. IV. Public Letters Signed by Auden and Others App. V. Lost and Unwritten Work Textual Notes Index of Titles, First Lines, and Books Reviewed
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Princeton University Press All the World on a Page
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Princeton University Press Poets of the Tamil Anthologies
Book SynopsisThe poems of ancient Tamil are one of India's most important contributions to world literature. Presented here in English translation is a selection of roughly three hundred poems from five of the earliest poetic anthologies of classical Tamil literature. These lyrical poems are intimately related to the agricultural society that produced them, andTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*Ainkurunuru, pg. 17*Kuruntokai, pg. 45*Narrinai, pg. 89*Ainkurunuru, pg. 107*Purananuru, pg. 137
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